Organic synthesis: Methods and applications

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This research program is directed towards the creation, understanding and application of new methods for organic synthesis. Organic synthesis is the science of building organic (made primarily of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen atoms) molecules. Similar to an architect designing a building and construction workers building it based on that design, synthetic organic chemists design routes to and build organic molecules. Because of the complexity of organic molecules that Nature makes, synthetic organic chemists require new methods (the tools) to build these new molecules. Once these tools are designed, they are tested in the course of a natural product synthesis. Students trained in these techniques traditionally end up working in fields related to the discovery of new medicines and new materials. Society receives many benefits through the efforts of students trained in the field of synthetic organic chemistry.